Why the empty flower beds? Change of scenery coming to MoPac commute

Ben Wear @bwear

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Feb 2, 2018 at 12:01 AMSep 22, 2018 at 2:48 AM

The terraces, each of them buttressed with short walls of roughhewn, light-brown concrete blocks, first popped up along North MoPac Boulevard about halfway through the four years of toll lane construction, seeming like future homes for some sort of ornamental vegetation.

Then, nothing.

"Why the multiple ‘flower beds’ at most overpasses along MoPac?" reader Rick Cloud asked our Austin Answered project. "How much did they cost? Who will maintain them (already weeds)?"

Read Ben Wear’s full column on mystatesman.com to find out what officials are doing with those terraces — plus find out more about Trump’s infrastructure plan and the latest traffic numbers on the least-used stretch of Texas 130.

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